Headstall



(.No Model.)

LDARE, HBADSTALL.

No. 466,330. Patented Jan. 5, 1892.

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"UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEE DARE, or LAeEo, INDIANA.

HEADSTALL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 466,330, dated January 5, 1892. Application led June 25, 1891l Serial No. 337,404. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, LEE DARE, a resident of Lagro, in the county of Wabash and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Headstalls; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,

and exact description ofl the invention, such as will enable others skilled'inthe art to which it pertains to makerand use the same.

The invention relates, primarily, to bridles, and has for its object to stiften and otherwise improve the headstall of a bridle and other like parts of a harness, and at the same time to cheapen the cost of the manufacture; and it consists in the construction hereinafter described and pointed out.

Figure l is a plan of the cheek and blinder of a bridle embodyingl my improvement. Fig. 2 is a perspective of the main metal portion thereof, and Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of a modied form of a part of the same.

Numeral 1 indicates a buckle provided with two loops 2, connected by side'bar's 3. These are joined bya cross-bar 4, having a hole 5 for a rivet. 6 is a similar cross-bar having a rivet-hole 5 and connecting side bars 3. The buckle proper is connected to the first loop by curved side bars 7, and these are joined by a bar having holes 5".

8 denotes a metal bar provided with one or more rivet-holes 5 and with a ring 9, having one or more loops 10, said ring being designed to receive a strap-aa for example, the bitstrap. The loop 10 is to receive a nose-strap. 1l indicates the cheekof a bridle, which may be provided with a blinder l2 or not, as preferred. The buckle l and bar 8 are applied to the bridle and joined together by means of rivets, as indicated. The leather cheek having been formed and stitched by a machine or otherwise, the bridle l is suitably placed thereon and riveted at 5 and 5. The

bar 8 is inserted between the two parts of the cheek and secured thereto, and also to the buckle, by rivets passing through holes 5 and 5IN.

Theparts thus formed and joined constitute a very firm and durable cheek provided with proper means for connection with other parts of the headstall. All the stitching required can be done by machine and the bridlecheek tted for connecting with the other parts of the bridle by the simple application of rivets, as stated.

The metal parts of the device may be made by any suitable practicable method.

In Fig. 3 is indicated a buckle provided wi-th an extension 13, having swaged-up recesses 14 for the reception of loops l5. Said extension 13 is formed ofsheet metal bystamping or otherwise and is attached to the buckle proper by being bent about one of its bars,

, as indicated. The part 16, which is bent back,

is provided with a recess 14, corresponding to that in the main part of the metal strap or so-called buckle-extension. This device can be substituted for the corresponding part shown in the other figures and will be less expensive to make. i

It is not essential that either part 8 or l be made of cast or wrought metal, nor are the Vnumber of loops or the precise location and number of rivets essential. Itis characteristie of the improvement that the parts l and 8 be made and connected to each other and to a bridle or other part of a harness or the like in substantially the manner illustrated and described.

Having thus described my invention, what I desire to secure by Letters Patent is- The device consisting of the buckle l, rearwardly extended and provided with elevated billetloops,'and the bar 8, having a strap-ring at its free end, said device being adapted to be fastened to a bridle-cheek, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed'this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LEE DARE.

Witnesses:

. OREN ON EAL,

OLIVER H. BoGUE. 

